4 ms·
This is a calculator, not a simulator. What exactly are you simulating? This takes a number of fixed inputs and produces a fixed output over some very coarse, m
by risenshinetech 3y ago
This is a calculator, not a simulator. What exactly are you simulating? This takes a number of fixed inputs and produces a fixed output over some very coarse, manually controlled time steps.
It's like saying using a calculator to add up the last few months of income/expenses is a "financial simulator".
- urbandw311er 3y agoThis seems like a rather pedantic objection in my opinion. “Simulation” here likely refers to a potential scenario such as a raise or an exit, or even an entire hypothetical venture.
- Solvency 3y agoNot really pedantic to me. Am I the only one here old enough to remember "Drug Wars" on the Ti calculators? That was an actual sim game. This is not that.
- its-summertime 3y agohttps://www.geekhideout.com/druglord2.shtml https://www.geekhideout.com/druglord2.shtml "modern" version. I feel many would object to "simulator" being applied to something that doesn't represent a pre-existing thing with any faithfulness, however.
- pvg 3y agoPedantry can be perfectly accurate and still be pedantry.
- Sohcahtoa82 3y agoIt usually is. But oh man it's lovely when someone is pedantic and wrong.
- pvg 3y agoYes but 'it's a not a simulation' is both right and pedantic (it's not of material importance to the thing being showhn) and 'that's not actually pedantic' is, to my lights, pedantic and wrong! So by my (possibly pedantic) interpretation, I get the satisfaction of both.
- not_the_fda 3y agoIf it were a "simulation" it would take into account that 99% of startups go to zero.
- jimmydddd 3y agoI'd say it's more like adding up future months' income/expenses where the future months' income/expenses can be changed based on different projected scenarios, thus simulating those different scanarios.
- joshelgar 3y agoWhat was the point of you being pedantic? It simulates what happens in different scenarios.
- pfista 3y ago[flagged]
- madacol 3y agoI disagree, The UI feels more like a simulation, you have an initial position (100% equity) and you start adding events sequentially, and you can see the partial results after each event that you have added. Sure, you could have done the same thing in a spreadsheet, but I think the UI is what differentiates a simulation from a calculator
- LeonB 3y agoIt is both! Yes there are some common simulator features that it doesn’t have (there’s no ‘prediction’ or randomness involved) but that doesn’t mean it’s not in the category of simulation. It helps simulate, or model, specific scenarios. Lawyering about words is unwarranted. “All models are wrong some models are useful.” This is a very primitive model but from the comments here I can see that some people find it useful, so that’s a win.
- layer8 3y agoYeah, I was expecting something like Universal Paperclips. ;)
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]